[B-Greek] Verbal aspect and speaker's viewpoints
Ken Penner
ken.penner at acadiau.ca
Tue Jul 10 13:16:31 EDT 2007
Thank you, Luis, for your thoughtful reply.
You mention Olson's work; are you referring to Mari Broman Olsen? I don't think she made a connection between aspect and a conceptualized speaker's viewpoint, but I have her work at my other office and can't confirm that.
Ken
> The only
> concern that I had with Olson’s work was that it relied
> heavily on the legitimacy of Grice’s maxims (e.g.,
> cooperative principle) and other notions of implicautre
> (Olson, p. 17, 18). From my understanding, Gricecian
> pragmatics also runs into some problems (Cf. Sperber and
> Wilson, Relevance), and this issue will have a significant
> bearing on one’s perspective of pragmatics. However, I don't
> remember if Olson made a necessary connection between
> linguistic verbal aspect and an actual conceptualized
> speaker’s viewpoint.
> At any rate, I think that popular notions of NT verbal
> aspect pertaining to morphology encoding a so-called
> “speaker’s viewpoint” need to be corrected, or clarified to
> say the least. I think what is also needed is for writers to
> provide a clear distinction between linguistic/semantic
> verbal aspect and notions of pragmatic “speaker’s viewpoints.”
> God bless,
> Luis C. Reyes
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